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 ====== III. If We Could Still Laugh ======
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 ==== 3-1 ====
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 Is nothing less than the end.
-<color #993333>//"That's quite ominous."//</color>[(Spoken by Phainon.)]\\
+<color #993333>//"That's quite ominous."//</color>\\
 The man pretend to be surprised, and responded with a smile:\\
 <color #993333>//"Though, it does dovetail with our destiny."//</color>
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 Unsure of how to respond.
-<color #993333>//"Perhaps I was just born easygoing."//</color>[(Spoken by Phainon.)]\\
+<color #993333>//"Perhaps I was just born easygoing."//</color>\\
 His explanation is just as carefree —
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 ==== 3-3 ====
+Though having said that,\\
+He too has quiet moments.
+Each time he gazed long toward the coming dawn,\\
+A smile remained fixed on his lips,\\
+Paying no mind to anything else.
+His eyes were painted with the azure of the sky,\\
+Gaze fixed on <color #993333>the Titan bearing the world</color>.
+<color #993333>//"I was just imagining,"//</color>\\
+He explained his own trance in a comment,\\
+<color #993333>//"Kephale too was once in mortal flesh and ramiment."//</color>
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+Now, when the man comes with sword in hand,\\
+There is no need to doubt he will swiftly win victory.
+But his smile is pure,\\
+Ever since the start of the journey,\\
+He is still called a <color #993333>"youth"</color> in this story.
+Youth is always ambitious, with lofty goals,\\
+But it seems that in the man's heart, only the wishes of others are held.
+<color #993333>//"Apart from the ideal of deliverance, what do you have left?"//</color>[(Spoken by Mydei.)]\\
+The golden-haired friend once asked him so.
+{{ :readable:saga:prisoner.of.flames:khaslana3-4.png?200|An image of two young men fighting back to back as comrades.}}
+He remained silent,\\
+Then, as he was wont to do,\\
+He simply smiled.
+<color #993333>//"As long as I don't ask for too much...//\\
+//Everything will unfold as desired."//</color>
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 ==== 3-5 ====
+{{ :readable:saga:prisoner.of.flames:khaslana3-5.png?200|An image of a mural with a man and a woman standing beneath a shining star.}}
+In Amphoreus,\\
+Untitled statues are a prevalent sight.
+As for the inspiration behind these statues,\\
+They are said to be the clay figures that Kephale made at the world's creation.
+They made clay figures in their likeness...\\
+Bestowed upon them the breath of life,\\
+<color #993333>And allowed the golden divinity of their blood to course through.</color>
+Thus —\\
+The very first <color #993333>mortals</color> roamed the earth,\\
+Receiving the gods' mercy,\\
+While realizing the sorrows of this world.
+But that sorrow was, in the end...\\
+Only the sorrow of the world.
+Nobody ever cared...\\
+What lay behind the smile,\\
+What the clay figure thought.